Dear Colleagues,

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are increasingly being used for the implementation of image processing applications. This is especially the case for real-time embedded applications where latency and power are important considerations. An FPGA embedded in a smart camera is able to perform much of the image processing directly as the image is streamed from the sensor, providing a processed data stream, rather than images. Modern system-on-chip (SoC) FPGAs allow the design for an application to be appropriately partitioned between hardware and software to exploit the characteristics of both platforms.

Simply porting a software algorithm onto an FPGA often gives disappointing results, because many image processing algorithms have been optimised for a serial processor. It is usually necessary to transform the algorithm to efficiently exploit the parallelism and resources available on an FPGA. This can lead to novel algorithms and hardware computational architectures, both at the image processing operation level and also the application level.

The aim of this Special Issue is to present and highlight novel algorithms, architectures, techniques and applications of FPGAs in the domain of image processing. Each submission should clearly evidence the novel contributions in one or more of these areas or provide a comprehensive review of some aspect of image processing on FPGAs.

Prof. Dr. Donald Bailey
Guest Editor

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• Hardware algorithms for imaging
• Computational imaging architectures
• Reconfigurable image processing systems
• Parallel image processing
• Hardware acceleration for imaging applications
• FPGA based smart cameras
• FPGA based deep learning